Ojo Del Lago

Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC Facing Our Fears   With the approach of Halloween, what better time to talk about fear. Many children and adults love celebrating Halloween because sometimes it’s fun to be scared. Lots of people enjoy masquerading as their favorite monster, going to a horror movie, or riding the […]

Tipping Among Friends By M.A. Porter   I floated a crackling, blue 20-peso tip onto the cuenta tray. My friend Sheila (name changed to protect the super-nice) said, “Oh, doncha think it should be about fifteen?” Her eyes swept over my 20-peso note as if it were worrisome manna. I asked, “Fifteen what?” She said,

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Medicine in Mexico   “Welcome” was the last word I expected to hear as I was wheeled into the operating room at Sanatorio de San Francisco de Assisi in Guadalajara. Yet “Welcome” was exactly what I heard; and Beethoven’s Für Elise playing in the background. My surgeon introduced everyone

GRAPE EXPECTATIONS By Robert Kleffel and Noemí Paz Bordeaux Red Wines   Bordeaux There is something very special about the first sip of a great wine from Bordeaux. The history of this wine growing area goes back to Roman times. Bordeaux wine production seems to have begun sometime after 43 AD, when César’s Legions conquered

Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum   You have found or rescued a cat/dog. After your initial action, then the problem arises, what do you do with  this animal? If you think of Anita’s Animals to help you with your problem, you have now transferred ownership of your problem to another person – which is fine.

MOVING TO MEXICO By Lisa JorgensenReviewed by Francine Britton     A big thank you to Lisa Jorgensen for writing this book! I read through it just as I was approaching my sixth month of living as a newly-minted retiree in Ajijic, Mexico and knew for sure that Lisa Jorgensen had ‘been there and done

“¡OBAMANOS!” By Fred Mittag   This election should alarm us into urgency. The alternative to the incumbent, according to top economists, is “disaster.” Obama is educated in scientific economics and Romney is a wealthy beneficiary of “supply-side,” or “trickle-down economics.” The first Bush called it “voodoo economics.” Romney is a “job creator” in America by

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “Insist on yourself; never imitate.”   Once again I have experienced in a few short months some dramatic changes in my life, and once again I have resorted to what has always helped to heal me: cleaning and reorganizing (in some cases tossing out) the things that

MITT VERSUS BARACK—No Contest! By Thomas Hally   “I will not surrender America’s role in the world,” stated Mitt Romney in a speech at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. And he continued, “If you don’t want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president. You have that president today.”

LAKESIDE LIVING Kay Davis Phone: 376 – 108 – 0278 (or 765 – 3676 to leave messages) Email: kdavis987@gmail.com October 2012 PAST EVENTS Out at last is Lisa L. Jorgensen’s Moving to Mexico’s Lake Chapala.  Lisa moved here just this past spring from the US. Her discoveries in making that move and as a newcomer